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Bloom off of New Zealand

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2017-11-13 00:00:00
November 13, 2017

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired this natural-color image of a phytoplankton bloom off of New Zealand’s South Island on November 13, 2017.

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NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Caption by Mike Carlowicz.

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